Except that thou and you coexisted for centuries depending on if one is talking to equals or inferiors.

True, but in linguistics what they consider important is the structure,,,the basic framework of the language...and there is no doubt English structure is descended from the Germanic language.
English is basically a language with a German Framework but a hell of a lot of words from the Romance languages hanging on the framework.

And of course if you print a page of German and a page of French an average a English speaker will probably recognize more of the French words than German ones.

The 40% German descent is Crap,pure and simple.

Germans have been immigrating in significant numbers to the U.S. since the 1680s, when they settled in New York and Pennsylvania. The bulk of German immigrants arrived in the mid-19th century; they've been the nation's predominant ethnic group since at least the 1980 census.
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The 49.8 million German-Americans are more than triple the 14.7 million Asians counted in the 2010 census. Bloomberg's county-by-county analysis broke down the Hispanic and Asian populations into subgroups by national origin, with Mexican-Americans and Chinese-Americans making up the largest share of their respective groups.
Americans of German descent top the list of U.S. ethnic groups, followed by Irish, 35.8 million; Mexican, 31.8 million; English, 27.4 million; and Italian, 17.6 million, the census shows.

Cities along the Great Lakes, the Ohio River, and the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers attracted a large German element. The Midwestern cities of Milwaukee, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago were favored destinations of German immigrants. The Northern Kentucky and Louisville area along the Ohio River was also a favored destination. By 1900, the populations of the cities of Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati were all more than 40% German American. Dubuque and Davenport, Iowa had even larger proportions, as did Omaha, Nebraska, where the proportion of German Americans was 57% in 1910.

I know that. Just has today vous and tu continue to be used in modern French. With vous bring formal and tu being informal. Much the way thou and you was used in England for centuries. Beginning in the later half of the 17th century thou began to disappear from everyday use in spoken English and you began to replace it in informal usage. by 1750 thou was confined to only certain parts of England and had acquired a very old fashioned archaic image in the public mind, and was no longer used very much. Instead you was used and it largely lost it's formally formal sense.

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Post Gazette

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That's from 2012. I'm curious if it still holds.

I'm more curious how the data can be "census data" since the census doesn't break down ethnicity into ancestral subgroups, or it hasn't for at least the last 40 years.

It is what I read somewhere.

It is what I read somewhere. Whatever. .

As I recall, one burnt the cakes and the other was taken by surprise.

So... maybe French was once some sort of Lingua Franca?

Sigh. That's not what "unready" meant.

If you want to hear what Anglo Saxon sounded like, watch the exteneded Director's cut of "LOTR:The Two Towers".
In the funeral scene in Rohan, the lamant that Eowyn sings is in Anglo Saxon...nice tip of the hat to what Tolkien's dayjob was:Professor of Anglo Saxon at Oxford.

Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one�as, for a showdeal, ymirstuff-235�it bursts it into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome.

With enought strength, lightweight unclefts can be made to togethermelt. In the Sun, through a row of strikings and lightrottings, four unclefts of waterstuff in this wise become one of sunstuff. Again, some weight is lost as work, and again this is greatly big when set beside the work gotten from a minglingish doing such as fire.

Today we wield both kinds of uncleftish doings in weapons, and kernelish splitting gives us heat and bernstoneness. We hope to do likewise with togethermelting, which would yield an unhemmed wellspring of work for mankindish goodgain. Soothly we live in mighty years.

Wondering how this fits in with PragerU and Jordan Peterson calls for an embracing of their notions of Western values and a rallying against its perceived enemies.

Small note: 'vous' is the plural 2nd person pronoun, and is used to be polite to others. It's somewhat fallen out of favour, unfortunately, with a lot of young people since the 90s.

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/

If you want to know the history of the language in depth, try this.

The guy producing it planned to do the whole thing in 100 installments. It has not worked out that way. His plan was:

25 episodes on the Indo-european origins.
25 on old English
25 on middle English
25 on modern English.

145 down and he is still in middle English. The rate of new episodes has slowed over time and they got longer.

This would be the French equivalent of "y'all"?

No. "Y'all" is singular. The plural is "all y'all".

This would be the French equivalent of "y'all"?

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/

If you want to know the history of the language in depth, try this.

The guy producing it planned to do the whole thing in 100 installments. It has not worked out that way. His plan was:

25 episodes on the Indo-european origins.
25 on old English
25 on middle English
25 on modern English.

145 down and he is still in middle English. The rate of new episodes has slowed over time and they got longer.

So he is going to take hundreds of years to go through the hundreds of years of the history of the English language?

I would expect that to be comprehensive.

So he is going to take hundreds of years to go through the hundreds of years of the history of the English language?

I suspect he will start speeding up as he gets closer to current times. Once dictionaries start showing up the subject will get less interesting.

He did some other material on the origin of the alphabet. I have not heard that, however. In the main podcast there was a section on letters that did not survive merger between northern and southern England writing systems merging. We really should have kept the letter "thorn".

The guy doing it is a lawyer from the US. Not much of an accent tracible to where he practices in South Carolina.

<snip>We really should have kept the letter "thorn".

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This OT tangent about Anglo-Saxon and the origins of English is much, much more interesting than the antics of a few stupid, ignorant Republican congress people.

It was okay when most communication was verbal, but as written systems became more popular it was more problematic.

It wasn't the pain of handling the text, you see, but the blood stains on the pages.

"Y'all" is plural, "all y'all" is emphatic plural.

Yet I've had an American from the south end of "Show Me" country say to me "y'all want to come have a lookitthis ", and I was the only person he was talking to.

Yes, y�all is singular and plural, like they or moose. I also agree that all y�all is emphatic plural. I�m pretty sure it is only plural, but YMMV

"Y'all's Mileage May Vary"?

Sorry.

Y�all is one of my favorite terms. That, and ain�t. When we moved to Louisiana, my parents were adamant that we didn�t sound like southerners. One day in the car, my mum turned and yelled at me and my brother, �Ain�t ain�t a word!� We of course loved this.

If you want to hear what Anglo Saxon sounded like, watch the exteneded Director's cut of "LOTR:The Two Towers".
In the funeral scene in Rohan, the lamant that Eowyn sings is in Anglo Saxon...nice tip of the hat to what Tolkien's dayjob was:Professor of Anglo Saxon at Oxford.